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Fighting the devil in Dixie : how civil rights activists took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama / Wayne Greenhaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenhaw, Wayne, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Alabama.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Alabama--History.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Wayne Greenhaw recounts his life and experiences as a journalist covering the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, describing his interviews with Klan members, detectives, victims, civil rights leaders, and politicians, and discussing the history of Governor George C. Wallace.
- Contents:
- Willie's first day
- The legacy of Willie Edwards
- Klan on trial
- Hound-dog determined
- "Fight everything segregated"
- The making of a segregationist
- The pair from Howard
- "Segregation forever!"
- Education of a liberal
- Country boy lawyer
- The Alabama story
- Requiem for Jimmie Lee Jackson
- Don Quixote of the South
- The southern courier
- The rise of John Hulett
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The people's attorney general
- Breaking the Klan
- "Forgive me, for I have sinned'
- "Like a mighty stream".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-56976-823-4
- OCLC:
- 699513529
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